Orin Starn
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Orin Starn is the Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.
Starn is the author of Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last Wild Indian; his other books include Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes and he is co-editor of The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics and Between Resistance and Revolution: Cultural Politics and Social Protest.
He has appeared on many radio and television programs, and writes for newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and Chronicle of Higher Education. Starn teaches courses about Latin America, Native American culture and politics, human rights, and sports and society, among other issues. Starn won Duke University’s Robert B. Cox Distinguished Teaching Award in 2004[1] and was awarded the Sally Dalton Robinson Distinguished Professorship effective July 1, 2005.[2] Starn has directed the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and is now the faculty director of the Duke Human Rights Center.
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[edit] Ishi, the Andes, and Indigenous Rights
| Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last "Wild" Indian | |
| Author | Orin Starn |
|---|---|
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | Ishi |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Publication date | 2004 |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 978-0393051339 |
Starn was involved in the repatriation to California of the remains of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian.[3] This search was reported in the New York Times and NPR, and Starn's book Ishi's Brain gives an account of it as well as the story of Ishi's life.[4] Ishi's Brain was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2004.[5]
He has also written extensively about the war and society in Peru, including both Nightwatch and The Peru Reader as well as several books in Spanish. A book Starn co-edited with Marisol de la Cadena, Indigenous Experience Today, explores the global rise of indigenous politics and activism.
[edit] Sports and Society
Starn is currently writing a book about the history and politics of golf in America, and maintains a related blog at Golf Politics. In March of 2007, he hosted a conference called Tiger Woods ©: American Empire, Global Golf and the Making of a Megacelebrity[6]
[edit] Duke Athletics and the Lacrosse Case
Starn wrote op-eds in North Carolina newspapers about the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case (among them, Let's talk sports[7]) and was quoted in other outlets, including The New Yorker [8] and The News & Observer. [9]
During the case, Starn took issue with some of Duke Basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski's actions. In a June 21, 2006 article in The News & Observer, Starn was quoted as stating, "Whether Coach Krzyzewski likes it or not, these are serious issues and issues being raised at colleges around the country."[9] He also accused bloggers of inaccurately portraying the involvement of Duke faculty in the lacrosse case in a January 2007 op-ed in the Durham Herald-Sun.
Starn has cited the incident in his criticism of Duke's participation in Division I athletics. In another News & Observer article, Starn was quoted as stating, "It's ridiculous to talk about a balance between athletics and academics... Athletics should be a subset underneath a university's main mission... The idea that athletics should have near-equal weight with academics is just wrong." [10]
[edit] Writings
- Indigenous Experience Today (co-editor)
- " 'I Dreamed of Foxes and Hawks': Reflections on Peasant Protest, New Social Movements, and the Rondas Campesinas of Northern Peru." In The Making of Social Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy, and Democracy. Edited by Arturo Escobar and Sonia E. Alvarez. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1992. 89-111.
- "Missing the Revolution: Anthropologists and the War in Peru." In Rereading Cultural Anthropology. Edited by George E. Marcus. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1992. 152-180.
- Edited with Carlos Ivan Degregori and Robin Kirk. The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1995.
- Edited with Richard G. Fox. Between Resistance and Revolution: Cultural Politics and Social Protest New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1997.
- "Maoism in the Andes: The Communist Party in Peru -- Shining Path and the Refusal of History." In Critical Perspectives on Mao Zedong's Thought. Edited by Arif Dirlik, Paul Healy, and Nick Knight. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1997. 267-288.
- Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1999.
- "Ishi's Spanish Words." In Ishi in Three Centuries. Edited by Karl Kroeber and Clifton Kroeber. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2003. 201-207.
- Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last 'Wild' Indian. New York: Norton, 2004.
[edit] References
- ^ 2004 Teaching Awards Announced.
- ^ Duke Honors Distinguished Faculty.
- ^ Ishi's Long Road Home. Science News Online (2000-1-8). Retrieved on 2007-12-12.
- ^ Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last "Wild" Indian
- ^ The year's finest: BEST BOOKS OF 2004. San Francisco Chronicle (2004-12-12). Retrieved on 2007-12-12.
- ^ Panel at Duke to Examine Tiger Woods' Cultural Impact.
- ^ Let's talk sports
- ^ Big Men On Campus
- ^ a b Coach K speaks up for sports
- ^ Sports in crosshairs of campus debates
